The
Symphony No. 36 in C major,
KV 425, (known as the
Linz Symphony) was written by
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart during a stopover in the
Austrian town of
Linz on his and his wife's way back home to
Vienna from
Salzburg in late
1783.
[ ISMN M-006-20466-3] The entire symphony was written in four days to accommodate the local count's announcement, upon hearing of the Mozarts' arrival in Linz, of a concert. The première in Linz took place on 4 November, 1783. The composition was also premièred in Vienna on 1 April, 1784.
[ ISMN M-006-20466-3] The autograph score of the "Linz Symphony" is not preserved.
Structure
The symphony is scored for 2
oboes, 2
bassoons, 2
horns, 2
trumpets,
timpani and
strings. There are four movements:
Every
movement except the minuet is in
sonata form.
The slow movement has a
siciliano character and meter which was rare in Mozart's earlier symphonies (only used in one of the slow movements of
the "Paris") but would appear frequent in later works such as
#38 and
#40.
[Brown, A. Peter, The Symphonic Repertoire (Volume 2). Indiana University Press (ISBN 025333487X), pp. 401-406 (2002).]The next symphony by Mozart is
Symphony No. 38. The work known as
"Symphony No. 37" is mostly by
Michael Haydn.
